Automatic lighter.



No. 808,128. PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905.

A. R. WEISZ.

AUTOMATIC LIGHTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR..13, 1905.

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ALBERTR. IVEISZ, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO AMELIE WEISZ, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

AUTOMATIC LIGHTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed April 13. 1905. Serial No. 255.463.

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. Be it known that I, ALBERT R. \VEIsz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of .Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a new and improved automatic lighter which is simple in construction, easily manipulated by one hand, is reliable in action, and by a pressure by the thumb on a button causes the igniting of tinder and opening of the top of the lighter.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, Figures 1 and 2 are views of the interior of the lighter, with parts in different positions and others removed. Fig. 3 is a View of the mechanism of the lighter, one covering side plate being removed.

The lighter is constructed with a flat casing A preferably rectangular in shape and having a cover B provided at the free end on its under side with a projection O. A disk D, having its lower edge toothed, is pivoted at D and carries the cover B and is connected eccentrically by a pivoted link E with the upper free end of a spring F, secured in the casing A. The toothed edge of the disk D engages a pinion G on the same short shaft T with a ratchet-wheel H, engaged by a spring-pawl J, secured on a friction-disk K, mounted loosely on the shaft T of the pinion G and ratchetwheel H, which disk is preferably made of steel.

A small piece of flint L is held in a pocket M of a spring-finger N, which latter presses the flint on the rim of the friction-disk K. A tinder wick O can be fed up and down by a toothed wheel P.

The cover B has an aperture Q at its free end, into which a spring-catch V can snap,

' which catch carries a button R, and when the cover is closed the catch V holds the cover closed.

WVhen the cover is closed, the spring F is in greater tension, and as soon as the button R is also the friction-disk R which produces sparks from the flint L, and these sparks ignite the tinder O. After the. ignited tinder has been used the cover B is swung down, and its lip O comes in contact with the ignited end of the tinder and extinguishes the same. By pressing down the cover the spring J is again brought in tension; but the friction-disk is not rotated, as the teeth of the ratchet-wheel H slide under the spring-pawl without engaging. hen the cover is closed, it is automatically engaged by its spring button It, and thus locked in closed position, and the apparatus can now again be used for igniting in the manner described.

The spring F and the disk D are so connected with each other that when the cover is opened, as shown in Fig. 2, the link and the spring are in line and the spring is not in tension, so that the spring serves to check the momentum of the cover and disk D, thus preventing the cover from forcibly striking the casing and breaking parts, or, in other Words, when the spring is released it moves under its high tension from the position shown in Fig. 1 to the position shown in Fig. 2; but the momentum of the cover would tend to move the latter still farther to the right, and such movement is checked because such farther movement to the right of the upper part of the cover would cause a movement to the left of the upper end of the spring beyond the position shown in Fig. 2, and this would bring the spring into a tension, and this tension is sufiicient to stop the cover.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an automatic lighter, the combination with a casing of a friction-disk, a spring for rotating the friction-disk, a piece of hard substance held in contact with the friction-disk, and means for locking and releasing said spring, substantially as set forth.

2. In an automatic lighter, the combination with a casing, of a cover on the same, a toothed disk mounted to turn on the same center with the cover, a spring connected with the toothed disk, a friction-disk and means for turning the same from the toothed disk, means for lockingthe cover in closed position and releasing the same, and a piece of hard substance in contact with the friction-disk, substantially as set forth.

3. In an automatic lighter, the combination above-mentioned spring-operated disk, and a hard substance in contact With the frictiondisk, siibstantially as set forth;

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of tWo subr scribing Witnesses, this 4th day of April, 1905.

ALBERT R. WEISZ.

I Vitnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, SOPHIA W. BAEDER. 

